>>>> Thanks for your answers, it sounds very straightforward. ofcourse it's straightforward. Believe me its not really difficult to write low level drivers in linux. You should be more comfortable with the hardware to write low level stuff. Beauty of linux is the framework it provides to make to it so easy !
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 9:47 PM, Kai <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 08:15:08PM +0530, srinivas bakki wrote: > > If you don't want dynamic memory allocation for framebuffer and neither > do > > you want it in the user space, All you need is to pass > > memmap = <size>$<start address> to the kernel and then write a kernel > > module module where you ioremap that physical address space. > > > > This is just like any other device driver where device registers are > mapped. > > Thanks for your answers, it sounds very straightforward. > > One more question: Currently I'm using the book Linux Device Drivers 3rd > Edition (2005) as a reference, and it's discussing Kernel 2.6.10. Do you > think that's still okay, or should I get/buy a more recent book on this > topic, and which would you recommend? > -- > Grüße, Kai > > "In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?" > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies >
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